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Puppy Prep! -The Week Before.
-How to prepare to bring home your new puppy the week before.
Puppy excitement is in the the air! You’ve eagerly watched the weekly litter updates, now your suspense is coming to an end, pick-up day approaches -it’s 1 week away! You’ll soon be driving to bring your puppy home for keeps! But how to prepare? How to ensure you have a wonderful experience with your new puppy that exciting first week? Here’s some helpful advice for prepping the week before pick-up day for a smooth transition, allowing everyone to enjoy all the fun a little beagle or golden brings to life. It’s time to puppy prep!
“Hi” from the Family at Rosehaven!
Hey Rosehaven Family! It’s been awhile since I’ve introduced us as a family with our puppers here on the homestead, so I thought I would get you up-to-date on who we are, what we do and how we love our dogs here in Colville, Washington.
Crate Train Your Pup!
Happy 2024! New year, New Pup, New training!
Let me jump into puppy basics with you and encourage you to CRATE TRAIN your pup! As we have discovered here on the Homestead, crate training is helpful for you, your pup and the whole family!
Here are the why’s behind crate training, the “what” of crate training and we’ll finish it up with a w…. How-To!
Continue reading “Crate Train Your Pup!”The Family Watercolor Journey
It was a rather gloomy, overcast, day in late November, 2019. A bitter cold wind swept the frozen ground outside, and the family here on the homestead were hunkering down for another long, dark, cold, not to mention boring, winter in Colville, WA. Dad knew we needed something adventurous to get us through the next 5 months of winter blues. That year the answer came from water and paint.
Continue reading “The Family Watercolor Journey”A Wild Beagle Adventure!
The sun shown brightly and the air was cool. Leading my beagles to their kennels, I passed through an open place in the barnyard. The black cat “Mustache”, named after the vibrant white mustache that continually grinned, was in the opening looking quite smug. Duke and Dahlia darted after him ignoring the primary desire of breakfast, and passed into the nearby field in their chase. Once they tired of the sport and Mustache gave up, they went on to obey my call and return to the kennel. Rather annoyed, I waited impatiently for the rascally beagles to rejoin me. Faithful old Daisy kept by my side not desiring to join in the youth’s enthusiastic chase.
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